Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-08-04
but overdrafts had been made which ran

under an administration that for hODeSi
ty and ability has no superior in STATE
history. our finances have been placed
on a plane of the highest character
Through the economy and busines:
sense of the last Legislature, a condition
of affairs has been brought about thai
serves to show in a greater degree the
miserable mismanagement of the Hoad'
ly and "coal-oil" regime. Without go
ing into detail of figures, l state what
the state papers show when | say thai
the average annual excess for the years
| mention of the Democratic expendi-
lures over the Republican expenditures
was $4,000 In other words. gentlemen,
that has been the yearly increased cost
to the people of Ohio, when the state
was in the control of the Democratic
party. In the light of these facts. the
recent declarations of the Cleveland
platform concerning Republican .extrsv-
agance demonstrate that the Democratic
party can forge cirti6cate of character
as easily and as readily as a tally sheet.
During Governor FOraker's adminis1
trstion the credit of the state has been
the highest known in its history. Loans
have been negotiated as low as PIP per
cent; bonds have been refunded at per
cent. and the financial integrity of the
state has never wavered. Gentlemen of
the convention, it was an axiom of Gov.
Morton that politics is business" and
in Ohio for the past two years, Republi>
can politics has been the purest kind of
business until we are on first class
financial basis.
The same contrast leads to similar
results in other phases of political life
life in these two administrations. They
opened their career with the purchase of
a senatorship, surrounded with all the
vulgar and vicious effects of the money
power in politics; we passed through
two years of exciting political life,elect-
ed a senator, acted on numerous meas>
ures of public policy and private inter
est, and no charge or appearance of
corruption marred our term. Against
the wishes of the people. they struck
from the statute book the best temper
ance law devised by the wit of man
Fastening to obey the popular will we
re-enacted the law and placed 1t where
it will remain forever. They condoned
defended and enjoyed the usufruct of
fraud, forgery and political crimes; we
denounced the fraud, punished the
forgers and expelled from position the
beneiciaries of these crimes. For four
years the name of Ohio Democracy has
been so closely allied with criminal and
disreputable methods that the bettsr
elements therein have been terrified and
shocked at the blare and braZeDness of
its evil deeds. And this is the party
that protests against the administration
of Governor Foraker as partisan and
unbusiness like" This is the party that
this year in its platform demands the
fullest safeguards of the ballot box, "and
scarcely six months ago, Governor
Hoadly, addressing Cincinnati Demo
Gratis, said, Never again-never again,
allow an honorable man to contemplate.
as had to. with. shame, my name Grad.
tied with 926 votes never raeeiyed in
Fourth ward ,and my friend, Judge For
aker, in precinct A, Fourth ward, &C
credited with 40 only, when he certainly
received nearly 200"
The Democracy of Ohio insults the
intelligence of this state when it seeks
by Its present platform to sneak into
power. A good character can not be
made by issuing prospectus; it is a
thing that must be built, and neither
can it be built in day at Cleveland.
The deeds of fraud and violence con-
doned, defended and apologized for by
the Democratic party will rise for years
to come. like Banquo's ghost, and will
not be downed by mere resolution.
Gentlemen, these deeds of Democracy
have made this Republican yearl A
year ladened with the richest auguries
of Republican victoryl A year crowded
yea. this convention. begins the presi+
Dental battle of 1888. Let this conven-
tion to-day name Ohio's choice for the
presidency. You know whom l mean! |!
There is but one name for OhiOans now,
whatever there may have been in the
past For % years the Republican party
of Ohio have trusted, loved and hoDored
John Sherman. LeG US show to the Re-
publicans of the country that we honor,
love and trust him still. Let US give
him such sincere, enthusiastic and de
termined Endorsement as is beitting so
distinguished a fellow citizen whose
deeds will live in the nations history as
do those of Alexander Hamilton. The
Republicans of Ohio, from whose midst
came Grant, Hayes and Garfield,
can not with credit to themselves do
less. This is our opportunity; let us
grasp it. The people of this country
are ready for John Sherman. The ma
tiOn is tired of Democracy. 1t has inau-
gurated no policy, save policy of an
tipaty to all that savors of patriotism.
For twenty years the Democratic party
has sought to belittle the results of the
war. For twenty years and more it has
lain in cold obstruction across the,path-
way of the nation" The republic, with
its greatness, its grandeur and its patrir
otism, has developed in spite of Democ>
racy. Now it has arrived at the climax
of Its purposes. What it whispered once
it now proclaims from the housetOps.
With President full and abreast of the
sentiment of his party, expressing with
ii frankness which is refreshing tenden
cies which Democrats vince at, yet in
dorse. the Democratic party has fully
revealed to the nation what it means
and what it will do. 1t means that it
regards to-day, as it did during the war,
the Democratic party as above country.
That it would turn its back to the most
sacred principles of patriotism and union
to secure party success. The restora'
tion of the Democratic party to power
has been like the restoration of the
Bourbons after Napolean; they repre-
sented the anti-patriotic and animation
al element of the French people. They
clung to ideas of government that were
as lifeless in their day as the delusion
of state rights is in ours. But by ifate
or accident, like the Bourbons of later
era. they came into power. They hated
the glory, the grandeur. the patriotism
of the Napoleonic period. They wanted
to bury the eagles of France and to turn
baekwa the hands of French history.
Like the Bourbons of to-day, they com
menced to obliterate the principles of
national power and greatness by destroy
ing the flags and trophies of French
victories They even carved the m
from the monuments of Napoleon's glo
ry. But the memories of Frances sol-